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extirpate

English

  1. 🔊 surgically remove (an organ)
  2. 🔊 pull up by or as if by the roots
    “uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden”
  3. 🔊 destroy completely, as if down to the roots
    “the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 extirpar to extirpate
  2. 🔊 descepar to extirpate, to uproot (to pull up by the roots)

Similar words

uproot deracinate root out uproot eradicate root out exterminate abate abolish abscind amputate annihilate ban bar blot bob clip crop cull cut cut away cut off cut out deracinate